" Such self-indulgence... ultimately threatened no one" (opens in new tab)

It's second generation, which emerged in the 1940's - Howard Nemerov, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, John Berryman, among many others - would fuse these techniques with postwar malaise, and an interest in psychoanalysis and existentialism, to produce works that often depended on minor scandalousness, from the incorporation of impolite words like \"public hair\" in an otherwise traditional sonnet, to the \"confession,\" in wel...